Campaigning door to door in her first term for office in 2013, Samantha Steckloff discovered people were more interested in whether she was married or had children than they were in her plans for the city if elected.

A stroll along the Bloomfield Town Square shopping center on Telegraph Road in Bloomfield Township shows a lot of retailers advertising for part-time seasonal help as the holiday shopping season kicks into gear.

Most communities across the state are taking a wait-and-see approach to new regulations that take effect in December that changes medical marijuana licensing and requires local zoning to allow medical marijuana operations.

The list of places where a licensed concealed pistol can’t be taken in Michigan includes schools, courtrooms, arenas, child care centers, taverns where alcohol is the main business, churches, entertainment facilities with seating of 2,500 or more, hospitals, college dormitories or classrooms, and casinos.

Wanted: Summer lifeguards. That’s the story this year out of Oakland County, which is having a tough time filling the 110 summer lifeguard jobs for its water parks as the summer season officially gets underway.

Susan Lindson, at Oakland Livingston Human Service Agency in Pontiac, said several hundred people will likely receive some credit counseling through the programs offered by the social agency during the year.

Troy and Southfield have been major destinations in Oakland County for immigrants from seven countries that President Donald J. Trump’s executive order Jan. 27 has temporarily halted the U.S. refugee program.

Holiday spending has bounced back from levels that plummeted after the Great Recession in 2007, but consumer surveys indicate people aren’t spending as much as last year, or as much as in pre-recession years.

Michigan has seen the number of people without health insurance cut in half in the five years of the Affordable Care Act, commonly called Obamacare, and millions nationwide face the loss of health coverage if President-elect Donald J.

For many, the lack of popularity of Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald J. Trump makes this year’s presidential election a choice between left and right – as in which wrist you prefer to slit.